Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-21

she looked too statuesque, too calm end
grand end beautifully fair Of complexion
for either line CT life; and, sooth to say,
no lady with growing up sons or younger
brothers would have had her.
Tie girl bowed her hesd under her pit
Hess aunt's bitter home truths. prey 20
love, to grief, psrplexity and sorest
anxiety.
"She shall marry him yet, or shall
| have done with her forevern thought
Mrs. Chillington, as she swept away TO
her room in such 6 frame OF mind and
undignihed rage, that she furiously sum
moned her maid, ClOChette, to apply q
handkerchief dipped in the inevitable
compound OF Johann Maria Farins to her
temples. Aud mademoaelle hid one OF
NJ. Alphonse Daudet's very naughty
novels, in which she had been deep, in
her pocket, and fastened to attend her
mistress.
Aunt Chillington had, of course, heard
OF the Montague Lonsdale episode; but,
as yet, disdained to make any reference
thereto, though she had evidently failed
| to cure her niece of ''thst folly"
| So, on the morrow, Melsnie Talbot was
to 60 home betimes-homa, where she
knew, and too well, that a second edition
of all she had undergone in the blue
drawing perhaps in even more
| bitter terms-awaited ner st the hands OF
! Uncle GrimshSW.
CHAPTER III-THE TROUBLES OF MELANIE
With the memory of most frigid kiss
and many words of warning and repre-
| hension from Aunt Chillington, Melsnie
| Talbot found herself alone ii q second
| class CarTisge-fCr already the deClensiOn
of her beauty had begun-and travelling
| hOmeWard, on the Oxford line, between
those fertile meadows end pastures
which, says Gibson, in his continuation
Of Camden, are "tbe greatest glory" OF
| the county, and are Watered by almost
| innumersble crystal streamlets, the rrib-
utaries of the Isis OF Thames.
a soft smile overspread the girls sweet
face as she read and Te-reGd, in the lux
uTy OF being alone and unnOticed, a letter
received from her lover just before leaY-
ing Chillington Park.
Among manysother things that chiefly
concerned themselves nearly and dearly
ne mentioned: ~ was told this evening
by Hilda Tremayne," che calls her Hill
da,' thought Melane) "the most afro
ciOus firt that exists" ("0b, that &C
counts for it. Won't punish him!")
"that she met you at your aupt's, but
| said you scarcely knewme, darling. Good
| that-but wisely cautious of you with
her. A storm is brewing in Burmah, and
hear that ours will be ABOUT the first corps
| detailed for service but il will only be 81
fash IN the pan,' as our fathers used tC
say. In dag or two | an goir & with
| Musgrsve Of the Hussars, TO visit an old
relation OF his somewhere in the country
| understand your Uncle Grimshaw has
shifted his camp to q new quarter. Lei
me know where, when you write me &C
J the Roy and your letter will be for
+ warded"
Melanie kissed MS letter ere she finally
consigned it to the bosom Of her dress
but she could not then foresee how muct
trouble this shifting OF her uncle:
"Camp," as Montague phrased il, would
bring about.
Aunt ChiIlingtop, her warnings snt
threets-even her callous remark chou
the helpless Reggie, were forgotten for g
time, as the train sped on aid en-, and thF
girl sat fondly dreaming of her lover
With her eyes Of dark grey blue hel
closed; OF the time when her cheek lss'
rested on bis breast, and his protecting
arm was round her-happy, content witt
knowing that she belonged to him, snC
that he belonged to her-that in the future
they must be always together; glsd to bt
assured tha. his handsome dark eye!
would never smile On another as theJ
smiled en- her-glad TO think that 10 otbe.
woman would ever ca7ess his hair, or he
lips be touched by those tl4L belonged <
her, Melanie Talbot.
Poor as the home was to which sh
was going, she felt that, in some re
spects, it might be kind of q relief ate
Gil she had undergone in London and q
Chillington PARK.
. All the pleasure and luxury, with whicl
she had been purposely surrounded
J had reverse side to the picture the
presented. All day long she had bee
compelled to study Aunt Chillington, VIII
never thought of any one bu
herself; to attend to her within
, and caprices, her wishes and wants